Accelerated Second Degree Nursing (ASDN) programs have become a vital means of addressing the
nursing shortage resulting in a sharp increase in the number of these programs. In 2009, there were 230 accelerated
programs and 33 in formal planning stages. Yet there has been little research to understand the predictive value of key
components of these nursing programs for academic achievement as demonstrated by NCLEX-RN success. The purpose
of this study was to determine the most significant factors and predictive value of these factors as they relate to student
success on NCLEX-RN in an ASDN program
A retrospective predictive correlational design was employed to examine relationships between performance in
pre-nursing and nursing courses as well as standardized tests for 363 ASDN students and NCLEX-RN success. A
significance level of 0.05 was maintained for the analyses in this study.